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Brazil Emerging
This volume is a critical inquiry into the social project and socioeconomic realities of emerging Brazil, a country that faces profound changes. A team of acknowledged specialists on Brazil’s complex configuration addresses state policies, social dynamics and economic constraints and opportunities for emancipation. Chapters adopt long-run perspectives on the development of the Brazilian welfare state, limits and opportunities for emancipation in the labor market, the scope and depth of social policies such as "Bolsa Família" and Rio’s Peacemaking Police Units (UPP), social movements - in particular, the Movement of the Landless (MST) - cultural policies at the federal level, the role of media in the country’s democratization project, and how two important commodities (sugar and oil) shape the identities of blacks and whites in Bahia. This book is essential reading for all those interested in understanding what kind of Brazil has acquired a prominent global position and what hurdles it faces to consolidate its position as a global player.
Advocacy Coalitions and Democratizing Media Reforms in Latin America
This book examines democratizing media reforms in Latin America. The author explains why some countries have recently passed such reforms in the broadcasting sector, while others have not. By offering a civil society perspective, the author moves beyond conventional accounts that perceive media reforms primarily as a form of government repression to punish oppositional media. Instead, he highlights the pioneering role of civil society coalitions, which have managed to revitalize the debate on communication rights and translated them into specific regulatory outcomes such as the promotion of community radio stations. The book provides an in-depth, comparative analysis of media reform debates in Argentina and Brazil (analyzing Chile and Uruguay as complementary cases), supported by original qualitative research. As such, it advances our understanding of how shifting power relations and social forces are affecting policymaking in Latin America and beyond.
Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right
Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological roots of the so-called New Right in Brazil. The book traces the continuity and resilience of a system of thought based on the idea of a God-given hierarchical order to be defended against any social contract and modernizing relativization. It explains in detail how today a diverse movement — which includes actors ranging from the authoritarian Bolsonaro wing to economic liberals to the military to both Catholic and evangelical religious conservatives – assumes unanimously the ideas of this tradition as underlying premises of their political action. Though not always explicitly, this drives the self-declared “liberal-conservative” but rather anti-modernist reaction which claims to liberate an imaginary authentic “Brazil” from an aberrant “State” – and in so doing intends to preserve inherited privilege in an extremely unequal society.
Media Law in Brazil
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of competition law and its interpretation in Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this analysis of media law in Brazil surveys the massively altered and enlarged legal landscape traditionally encompassed in laws pertaining to freedom of expression and regulation of communications. Everywhere, a shift from mass media to mass self-communication has put enormous pressure on traditional law models. An introduction describing the main actors and salient aspects of media markets is followed by in-depth analyses of print media, radio and television broadcasting,...
Best of Sticky Fingers
Stay up all night with USA Today bestselling author JT Lawrence Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized, you'll binge-read this compelling collection of 16 psychological suspense short stories. ★★★★★ "Lawrence makes every word count, telling each story with elegance and emotional punch.” — Patsy Hennessey ★★★★★ "JT Lawrence is the queen of short stories." — Dora Bona ★★★★★ "Each story is masterfully constructed ... Humorous, touching, creepy, but most of all entertaining, this collection is superb." — Tracy Michelle Anderson *** If you're a fan of Roald Dahl or Gillian Flynn you'll love these unsettling stories with a twist in the tale. Are you ready to stay up all night with USA Today bestselling author JT Lawrence? Click now to start reading.
Shifting the Meaning of Democracy
This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth century—the redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of “racial democracy” as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality.
The New Brazilian Mediascape
In this book, Eli Carter explores the ways in which the movement away from historically popular telenovelas toward new television and internet series is creating dramatic shifts in how Brazil imagines itself as a nation, especially within the context of an increasingly connected global mediascape. For more than half a century, South America’s largest over-the-air network, TV Globo, produced long-form melodramatic serials that cultivated the notion of the urban, upper-middle-class white Brazilian. Carter looks at how the expansion of internet access, the popularity of web series, the rise of independent production companies, and new legislation not only challenged TV Globo’s market domination but also began to change the face of Brazil’s growing audiovisual landscape. Combining sociohistorical, economic, and legal contextualization with close readings of audiovisual productions, Carter argues that a fragmented media has opened the door to new voices and narratives that represent a more diverse Brazilian identity. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Sempre foi pela família
“Sempre foi pela família”, afirmam as autoras desta obra que exibe a promiscuidade dos vínculos entre comunicação e política. Aqui no Brasil o sobrenome ainda assegura posse de terras, transmissão de votos, concessão de emissoras de rádios e de televisão. Após investigar informações e nos trazer um mapa associando: emissoras, proprietários, políticos e instituições religiosas elas concluíram: “também é pela religião”! Os fatos aqui relatados mostram que os meios de comunicação brasileiros vivem numa densa estrutura, permeada pelas raízes da família patriarcal e do mandonismo, pelos troncos e galhos do clientelismo e do compadrio. Este livro é uma referência para quem busca vislumbrar e lutar por outras modalidades de relação entre mídia e política, nas quais o poder de decisão se desloque das famílias e das religiões para atores mais afinados com a diversidade que habita entre nós. A obra impacta pela atualidade das informações e pela qualidade dos dados recolhidos em fontes oficiais e registros presenciais, que, articulados, levam à compreensão do tamanho do problema que esse modelo de comunicação nos impõe.
Slavery in Brazil
This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their descendants in Brazil. This book aims to introduce the reader to this latest research, both to elucidate the Brazilian experience and to provide a basis for comparisons with all other American slave systems.
O Espectro Autoritário: Como a Concentração de Mídia Fragiliza a Democracia
Um mercado concentrado de mídia não surge ao acaso. Ele é resultado de um processo histórico em que atores autointeressados interagem estrategicamente e negociam regulação favorável em troca de apoio político. Assim, surgem e evoluem os oligopólios midiáticos, associados ao comprometimento de princípios de inclusão, participação, accountability e liberdade de expressão. Quem perde é a democracia. O livro O espectro autoritário: como a concentração de mídia fragiliza a democracia desvenda minuciosamente a lógica desse processo, a partir da investigação do caso da radiodifusão em perspectiva comparada Brasil-Argentina. A obra oferece, ainda, um rigoroso guia teórico-me...
